How to Drop Misery by Osho

The moment you ask how to drop misery you know perfectly well you don’t want to drop it, because there is no reason.
If you don’t want to be miserable, it is so simple – don’t be miserable.
I simply decided.
And thirty-five years have passed; I have not been miserable – although the whole world is trying to make me miserable.
But they should remember: it is impossible. Once I have decided, I have decided.
As I was coming out of the American jails, the jailer said to me, ”Strange... people enter jail and they look very good. When they come out they look very bad.
But you are looking better!”
I said, ”Twelve days of complete rest, no problem, no disciples... no need of any security” – I was the most secure person inside. I told him, ”Even President Ronald Reagan is not so secure.
If you want him to be really secure, put him in jail! – absolute security!”
He said, ”I have never seen any man...
I am going to retire soon. In my whole life’s experience, you are the first man who has come out of the jail so happy.”
I said, ”I didn’t think it would be so soon; I was planning to rest a little more.”
But it was not only the jailer. My attorneys, as I came to them, said, ”What happened? You are looking far better.”
As I reached my residence, Vivek said, ”Why don’t you look so good here?”
I said, ”This is not a jail. I was practicing for twelve days because I know for certain if there is any hell – I’m going too!”
God is not going to tolerate me.
His priests are not tolerating me anywhere in the world.
Even if I somehow reach heaven, God is not going to allow me in. Perhaps they have already passed a resolution – ”This man is dangerous. If he comes this side, be alert!”
But they need not be worried,
I’m not going to their side.
OshO

Definition of Planing by Osho

Nothing is wrong in planning. If you are not burdened with it, it is perfectly good.

The problem arises when it becomes a tension in you.

If you are playing it as a game, it is perfectly good. If it is a leela, it is perfectly good. If plans are fulfilled, good. If they are not fulfilled,don’t feel frustrated, that’s all.

While planning, don’t become tense about it. Remain relaxed.

The problem arises when you plan and the planning becomes so important that you are lost in it and you cannot keep your coolness. You become so hot and excited that you are almost feverish, ill.

Then it is a problem.
Otherwise, if you can remain cool, and plan, it is perfectly good.

Just try to remain cool and centred, and if you find it difficult, just leave everything to me. Go on moving and let things happen. They will fall in line.

I have never planned. In fact I don’t know how people plan.

But everything falls in line. Somehow the whole manifests and things go on happening.

The beauty of it is that because you don’t have any plan, you cannot be frustrated. You can never be a failure.

In Persia they have a proverb: If you sleep on the floor, you will never fall from the bed. Perfectly good! If you don’t plan, there are no problems.

All problems disappear.

And whatsoever is good, happens, because there is no way to compare It with anything.

Wherever you reach is the goal because you had no goal to reach in the first place.
OshO

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